AMD and Architecture for Humanity today announced the Open Architecture Prize, a $250,000 prize for designing a technology center in the developing world that can be adapted to meet local needs in underserved areas. Unlike traditional prizes in architecture the award will be used to build the... View full entry
Long Live Historic Preservation. In what might seem a contradiction to anyone who does not live in Chicago, the very same week that Mayor Daley is promoting Chicago's architecture as an elegant backdrop for the 2016 Olympics the Chicago Landmarks Commission okayed the replacement of the Farwell... View full entry
The AFH initiated Open Architecture Network is live! The Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. See, the web has some real value! Go explore, collaborate, and help make a difference. View full entry
Pecha Kucha -Starting at 8:00 p.m. on March 8th, 2007 (coinciding with International Womens' Day) the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design will be hosting a special Pecha Kucha night, titled Femmes Fatales and featuring the work of female designers from the Los Angeles area, at the... View full entry
Cameron weighs in from Doha, Qatar. Gulf Times View full entry
Future Systems has won the international competition to design the new National Library building in Letná. Prague DM l discuss View full entry
Second Life, the four-million-strong online community, is turning more and more into a pixelated copy of reality and its institutions, complete with rampant consumerism, political candidates and lawsuits. Whatever happened to the brave new virtual world? der spiegel l related View full entry
Hamburg already has target its historic harbor with HdM's Elbphilharmonie, now the city is ready to showcase a whole new development on the water with HafenCity. der speigel View full entry
The story of how Goldman Sachs got environmentalists to embrace a utility they loved to hate—and sealed a $45 billion deal. Almost makes you feel warm and fuzzy about their $600,000 Christmas bonuses... Newsweek View full entry
After three days of intensive workshops designed to generate fresh ideas for Philadelphia's languishing Delaware waterfront, five dozen bleary-eyed planners and architects put aside their maps, satellite photos and sketches on Saturday evening, and jointly called on city and state officials to... View full entry
Jonathan Glancey profiles 10 weird, wild and wonderful versions of surrealist architecture. | guardian View full entry
9 months in the making, the live beta version of the new Open Architecture Network is set to launch March 8th at the annual TED conference. more from the NYT (not exactly on the ball, but close) NB: watch for related news... View full entry
Inhabitat interviews San Francisco-based prefab pioneer Toby Long on his company CleverHomes and the future of prefab architecture. Full Interview on INHABITAT View full entry
Materials & Applications and BLDGBLOG have teamed up to curate an architectural film fest, as part of this year's Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles. We're looking for short films themed around architecture and landscape – but this is very broad terrain. It can mean site... View full entry
Ouroussoff takes a moment to point out some high falootin' fortress urbanism (the Freedom Tower, Mayne's Caltrans HQ, foreign embassies) taking over today's global cities, where the "prettiness is camouflage for the budding reality of a society ruled by fear." Also, there are a couple of mp3's... View full entry